The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of utilizing the Department of State Services, DSS, to silence critics following the arrest and arraignment of an Atiku Abubakar supporter over a pretend letter attributed to the president.
The case entails Mubarak Abdullahi, also called Sardaunan Samari, who was arrested after sharing a doc purportedly written by Tinubu to the President of the United States on his Facebook web page with the caption, “ATIKU IS COMING.”
Reacting in a publish on X, Sowore questioned the federal government’s use of the safety company, accusing it of focusing on residents as a substitute of permitting them to specific dissent.
“How on earth do you reduce a national security agency like the OfficialDSSNG to a mere vacuum cleaner, deployed to sweep up dissenting voices,” he wrote.
The DSS has filed a three-count cost bordering on cybercrime and defamation towards Abdullahi on the Federal High Court in Kaduna.
According to the account of the case, he admitted sharing the doc and apologised, however was remanded on the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Kaduna.
Sowore warned that these concerned would finally be held accountable, saying, “A day of reckoning is coming, when you too will be held accountable for your actions.”
